CHAPTER I: Islam Map
For Muslims before the era of Columbus, the Indian Ocean must have been another Mediterranean Sea.
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي; Latin: Dreses) (1099–1165 or 1166) was a Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II.
His map also inspired Christopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama.
Introductory summary overview map from al-Idrisi's 1154 world atlas. Note that south is at the top of the map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Idrisi
Yet, both Jerusalem (31.46 degrees of latitude) and Mecca (21.26 degrees) are located in the northern hemisphere.
Tokyo is at 35.40 and Tehran at 35.38, which is a kind of miracle.
(Cairo at 30.03, Alexandria at 31.13)
CHAPTER II: Libya Report
Japanese TV stations are all actively reporting the situation in Libya, adding that more than 230 people were killed.
I strongly recommend Muslims in Libya to leave the armed conflicts.
I strongly recommend Muslims in Libya to ask Allah to give them freedom and democracy more than European Christians are enjoying.
I strongly recommend Muslims in Libya to show a higher-level of the aspect of peace of Islam to the world.
Even in China, it has been reported that 1,000 youths, students, and citizens who just started to gather with cell phones in their hands on the street of various cities for protest against the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party were soon suppressed and arrested.
An old Chinese woman watching the arrest on the street said, "We have no law in China!" to a TV camera, probably, held by a foreign reporter, as televised tonight in Japan, while her face was blurred on TV.
CHAPTER III: Christianity Forbidden in Japan for 280 Years
In 1589, the then samurai king of Japan Hideyoshi proclaimed a ban on Christianity.
In 1873, the modern Meiji imperial government of Japan abolished the ban on Christianity, since the samurai era had gone and Western powers requested so.
Even today, Christians account for 10% of the whole population of Japan.
Yet, there are no Japanese who do not know what Christ Jesus is.
As for Islam, it does not appeal to the Japanese mind and soul.
Islam is regarded as a religion for people living in the desert, though there are so many Muslims in Indonesia some of whom are sometimes observed in Tokyo and so on.
As for Judaism, Japanese people feel strong curiosity, mystery, and difficulty if not caution, though not much respect in comparison to sympathy. However, Japanese feel no hate and antagonism toward Judaism in general.
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Mar 2:21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.